2D CAD - which one is good? (for Linux of course)

[Kdar]

Does anyone know some good, 2D CAD?

I am doing bathroom remodeling and want try different tile layout in CAD.

[mmalone21]

I use microstation and autocad at work but QCAD works for home use. I have used it for a few things. Plus it is free. Sure beats $6000 for microstation or $1600 for autoCAD. Let me know if you need anything else.

[madjr]

wut about sweet home.. 2d/3d?

[juancarlospaco]

FreeCAD

[mmalone21]

I have never used Sweet home 2d. I will have to try it.

[madjr]

I have never used Sweet home 2d. I will have to try it.

actually is 3d too :P

[mmalone21]

Cool, I will have to install it and give it a try.

[Gemnoc]

I use microstation and autocad at work but QCAD works for home use. I have used it for a few things. Plus it is free. Sure beats $6000 for microstation or $1600 for autoCAD. Let me know if you need anything else.
AutoCAD is more like $4k! You must be thinking of AutoCAD LT, which is 2D only.

For anyone used to work with AutoCAD professionally (like I used to), QCad Community Edition is barely usable. The fact that you need to manually select snaps (only one mode at a time!!!) is a major PITA. The commercial version of QCad, v2.2.2, offers much improvement in this regard and is really cheap (€24). (BTW the trial will run for 100 minutes total, but shuts down every 10 minutes)

Worth a shot: Bricsys is working on a Linux version of their AutoCAD clone Bricscad. It's still at the Alpha stage, but it's starting to be usable. You can download the latest release for free at this link (https://www.bricsys.com/common/support/forumthread.jsp?id=12335) (registration required to download). The current v10.3.10 will expire on April 30th, but a new one should be made available shortly in the Bricscad for Linux forum (https://www.bricsys.com/common/support/forumtopics.jsp?forum=20).

@ juancarlospaco

FreeCAD shows promise, but it's mainly a 3D package. There's a Draft module, but I'm not sure that it's fully functional in the v0.9 alpha release. Plus it's not really easy to install in Ubuntu 9.10 or earlier at the moment if you're on 64-bit. It's in Lucid's repositories now, so it should make things easier.

[bricsys]

Hi,

Bricsys announced the beta version of Bricscad V10 for Linux. Bricscad is recognized as the number one alternative CAD platform for the DWG file format. Now it finally becomes available as a native Linux version. Initially, Bricscad will support two Linux flavors, Red Hat and Ubuntu. The first commercial version will be released at the end of June, 2010.

You can download the beta version at www.bricsys.com

[bricsys]

Hi,

Bricsys announced the beta version of Bricscad V10 for Linux. Now it finally becomes available as a native Linux version. Initially, Bricscad will support two Linux flavors, Red Hat and Ubuntu. The first commercial version will be released at the end of June, 2010.

You can download the beta version at www.bricsys.com

[bricsys]

Hi,

Bricsys announced the beta version of Bricscad V10 for Linux. Now it finally becomes available as a native Linux version. Initially, Bricscad will support two Linux flavors, Red Hat and Ubuntu. The first commercial version will be released at the end of June, 2010.

You can download the beta version at www.bricsys.com

[bricsys]

Direct download link:
http://www.bricsys.com/open/common/download.jsp?p=B4L&l=en_US&site=1

[Sector11]

User Manual for SagCAD (http://sagcad.sourceforge.jp/en/overview.html)

In synaptic: sagcad

Although Bricscad looks interesting too. I'm retired now and don't "need" a CAD program anymore but it sure looks nice.